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...unquestionably helping their hearts. But are they shedding poundage as well? No, say three U.S. Air Force researchers in the A.M.A. Journal: exercise alone can't do it. A runner of medium weight who wishes to shed a pound of fat on a one-shot basis must expend 3,500 calories, which means that he must run for well over an hour...
Needless to say, Channing, who is now 51 , looks much too old for the part. A young Lorelei seems naive, but a seasoned one is merely brazen. Instead of throwing herself into the proceedings, Carol seems to expend her energy with utmost calculation. Apart from a couple of production numbers, she remains almost stationary and is offstage altogether for the strenuous tap-dance sequences. Even her vocal tricks - going from bass through squeak in breathtaking spoken roulades - now sound like a ventriloquist...
Christmas tree lit by 75 standard bulbs burning four hours a day would use 290 of power a week, a relatively harmless indulgence. A tree decorated with 75 twinkle lights would expend 170 of electricity a week...
Newly-indoctrinated, oft-harried freshmen will always be subject to the advances of the entrepreneurs of HSA--Harvard Student Agencies. The Fuller Brushmen of Cambridge expend much energy trying to foist upon undergraduates class rings, their linen service and for those so inclined, bartending classes...
Kristol, it must be emphasized, is not here discussing the serious scholar, the so-called "expert." He is referring to the mass of individuals who gravitate around the universities and media and expend most of their energy promulgating ideas which they experience only at second hand. Kristol quotes Robert A. Nisbet, a shrewd observer of the academic scene, who has estimated that a majority of all academics in the universities in this country "have so profound a distaste for the classroom and for the pains of genuine scholarship or creative thought that they will seize upon anything... to exempt themselves...